I have been really sick the last couple of weeks and finally went to the express care clinic at the hospital last night they said I had a uninary tract infection and put me on antibiotics. Problem is tomorrow is my all day appt at the surgeon's office for pre op testing and I started taking the antibiotics and looked at the paper work from the surgeon's office a few min ago and found a paragraph that I missed that says I have to stop taking antibiotics 14 days before my appointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now I don't what to do. The surgeon's office is 2 hrs away by car and my appointment is at 7:15 a.m.

They have to test me for some kind of bacteria that lives in your stomach and that's why you can't be on antibiotics when they do the testing. I know I can't fudge and tell them that I'm not taking them it might put my health at risk. Does anyone know if I might be able to take the test at my local doctor's office or hospital and have them send the results to the surgeon? They will be testing for h.pylon.

I'm pretty sure it will be OK. They don't want you to suffer from an infection. You will probably be able to schedule the test at a later date after your infection is gone, just be honest about everything.

Thanks that's kind of what I thought and even if I had known I still would have taken it because this UTI is really really bad. But thank goodness it is getting better.

My regular Doctor's office has an in house lab and I live just a couple of miles from a regional medical center hospital. So I'm sure that the test can be done later.